The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-29
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Enterprising Burglars-The Peach Crop
"A Georgia Editors Picnic-A New
Method OF Keeping the Colored
Brother in the Harness--Hoover's
Polite Invitation to Leave Madison
GEORGIA.
Tax returns at Athens are required to be
made by June l.
Several parties are still very i'll from the
Woodville scourge.
Already candidates for the Legislature are
looming up in Clarke.
About It's have given their names to the
Rome churches so far.
building and loan association has lust
been started at Bainbridge.
The Rome cotton factory has completed
one part of the building and the other viii
soon be finished
Rev. J. G. Porter, of Lake Weir, Fla, is
assisting at the revival meetings at the Bap-
list church at Brunswick
Athens holds church-going people. The
Wednesday afternoon prayer meetings in
the city churches are well attended.
A committee in Madison have waited on
Hoover and informed him that he must
leave the city so soon as able to travel
Shade Love, who has been in the Camilla
jail awaiting trial for assault with intent
TO murder, has been released under a bond
of $50
Cards are out for the marriage of Mr..
Cornelius Garrett, of Augusta, and Miss
Maggie, daughter of Mr.. Van Holt Nash, of
Atlanta.
It is expected that Atlanta's new glass
works viii start in full blast next week
The company has over $4,000 worth of
orders already booked.
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feet long, sporting ten rattles and a but
ton, ON his place in the Benevolence neigh
borhood yesterday week.
A professor in the State University saws
the cause of the trouble with the students
is permitting mere children to enter it who
do not know how to behave themselves.
Prof. Euler B. Smith of the LaGrange
Female College. has been invited to deliver
the annual address at the commencement of
the West Point public schools, on June %.
A dry dock is now receiving the attention
of some of the Brunswick citizens and there
is every prospect of stock company being
formed with capital of $50, 900 to build it.
Fewer fish have been caught this year out
of the Oconee river than ever before known.
Even the small moke with his pin hook has
become disguised, and pines for the ripening
of the blackberry crop.
Crewel Woalfolk, one of the students OF
Mercer University at Macon, who fell from
a horizontal bar on which he was exercising
about ten days ago and hurt himself, died
from his injuries Friday.
N. B. Shearhouse, a Guyton merchant
recently put up new sign, and the next
night burglars Taided him. They naturally
thought it a sign of prosperity, and ''weni
In" on business principles.
Morgan county protests against the ap-
poin1ment of DIR. D. F. Wolf as the repre-
sentative of that section to the interstate
agricultural convention, by Gov. Gordon
Is he is not a representative citizen.
One of the biggest jobs done by the La
Grange town authorities within the las
- twelve months has been the grading of the
high hill ON Vernon street, near the La
Grange Female College. 1t is a great i'm
provement.
A rumor says that the "fence men" Of
Marion county are forming an organization
in quite a systematic way, whose object
will be to boycott every mill man, merchant
or politician who voted for ''stock law il
the recent election.
William johnson, the negro who stole til,
watch and money from Mrs Henly, al
Griffin, was arraigned before Judge Cleve
land Wednesday and plead guilty to tn,
charge. He was sentenced to twelve months
in the penitentiary.
Among the industrial companies organ
lied in Georgia this week are the Americu,
Guano Company, with capital stock o.
$4,000. and the Hatcher Iron Wagon Com
pany, of Macon, capital 800. 900. Mr.. Johr
NJ. Green, of Atlanta, was elected President
of the Americas company.
The name of the post Office heretofore
known as Silverberg, in Chatham county
has been changed to Burroughs, and the safe
moved one mile north to the railroad sta
ton Lemuel j. FarTis is postmaster
Quantock, in Scriven county, has been dis
continued Mail goes to Sylvania.
N. M. Weaver, Jr., thrashed out his oat
and wheat crops, raised on his little farm on
the north side of Cuthbert, on Wednesday
and found that the oats had made forty
bushels and the wheat twenty bushels pei
acre. And yet there are people who believe
that wheat cannot be grown successfully
there.
The peach crop is nearly an entire failure
in North and Middle Georgia. In Southern
and Southwest Georgia there is prospect
of about a half crop. The prospect Of al
apple crop is reported about two-thirds OF
anaverage; that of the pear about one-third
The prospect for the grape crop is reported
IS, or nearly a full crop.
1t is reported that Jackson county has
fine prospects of a cotton and corn crop
and that the no-fence districts have the bes
crops. That county has adopted the fence
law by districts. Mr.. Lyle says that whilt
out this week as soon as he got into fenti
district the first thing he saw was larg,
lot of hogs in field of wheat
Cuthbert Liberal: Next Monday the vot
ers Of the town district vote upon the stool
law again. If it is defeated, we suppos
they will have it to try again about Jan
next Three times in fourteen months ant
Zone time every year" can hardly mean TIN
same thing, and the legislators never though
they would be made to do it.
Some of the enterprising citizens of Bake
and Mitchell are going to form joint stool
company to build river steamer Mai r
N. Ely is to saw the lumber right away
and one of the principal movers in the en-
terprise says that if he is not badly fooled
the steamer governor Hudspethn will b.
ready for business by the opening of tn
cotton season.
The records of the Department of Agri
culture show up to the present time that
10000 tons of commercial fertilizers havt
been inspected and admitted to sale in tn
State, an increase over last year Of owe
5000 tons and the largest amount since The
Inauguration of the inspection laws, excep
the season Of lSS4-5, when 10000 tons wer,
Inspected
The LeConte pear trees near ALBANY
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